28/10/2025 Max Nusshör has won a Kekulé scholarship of Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for doing a PhD in our group. Congratulations!

28/10/2025 Our latest article together with the Fichtner group from Ulm/KIT on an Mg battery system has gone online in Advanced Science: Effect of Silicon-Based Electrolyte Additive on the Solid-Electrolyte Interphase of Rechargeable Mg Batteries.

09/10/2025 The project NETPEC2 as part of the CDRterra programme has been granted and is due to start in November. Thanks to BMFTR for funding!

01/07/2025 An article together with the Sharp group at TU München on solar water splitting has gone online in Advanced Functional Materials: Enhancing Direct Solar Water Splitting via ALD of Multifunctional Ti_O2/Pt Nanoparticle Coatings With Engineered Interfaces to GaAs/GaInP Tandem Cells.

09/05/2025 Mario sucessfully defended his PhD at the University of Ulm. Congratulations!

18/03/2025 Vibhav's article The phase stability of InP(001) surfaces upon oxygen exposure from first principles has appeared in RSC Advances. In this work, we aim to identify the most stable surface phases of InP(001) in contact with oxygen. DOI:10.1039/D5RA00855G.

30/01/2025 Aya's article CO₂ Reduction on Liquid GaInSn-Metal: Dynamics of the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface has appeared in ChemCatChem. Here, we look at the complex structural dynamics of a liquid-metal electrocatalyst in contact with an electrolyte. DOI:10.1002/cctc.202401740.

22/01/2025 Holger's article The InP(100) Surface Phase Diagram: From the Gas Phase to the Electrochemical Environment on assessing the stability of InP surface phases in electrochemical environments via the computational hydrogen electrode has appeared in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. In this work, we also introduce a novel type of phase diagram that colour-codes the stability of a given phase with respect to its competing, i.e. energetically neighbouring, phase. DOI:10.1021/acsami.4c20370.

14/01/2025 Moritz Adam's work Land conversions not climate effects are the dominant indirect consequenceof sun-driven CO₂ capture, conversion, and sequestration has appeared in Environmental Research Letters. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ada971.

27/11/2024 Daniel's article on the electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 to solid carbon has appeared in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. From CO₂ to Solid Carbon: Reaction Mechanism, Active Species, and Conditioning the Ce-Alloyed GaInSn Catalyst. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c05482.

22/10/2024 Two articles of Mario on post-lithium battery systems have gone online: In Magnesium and Aluminum in Contact with Liquid Battery Electrolytes: Ion Transport through Interphases and in the Bulk we look at transport mechanisms through interphases and -faces. DOI:10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01589. Operando Investigation of Al Plating Regimes on HOPG in [EMImCl]:AlCl3 by Electrochemical Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy, on the other hand, shows how RAS can be used to study charging and discharging mechanisms in a time-resolved manner. DOI:10.1002/batt.202400610.

17/07/2024 Erica Schmitt will receive this year's Försterpreis for her work on solar water splitting during the Kepler lecture on 24.07.2024. Congratulations!

28/06/2024 Margot Guidat has, as the first Ph.D. student of our group, defended her thesis on electrochemical RAS. Congratulations!

28/05/2024 Maximilian Diecke has won a scholarship of Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt for doing a PhD in our group. Congratulations!

05/03/2024 The work of the NETPEC consortium, turning CO₂ into carbon flakes, has been featured in the science TV-show Nano on 3Sat.

06/02/2024 Justus' article The relevance of structural variability in the time-domain for computational reflection anisotropy spectroscopy at solid-liquid interfaces where we explore the impact of structural fluctuations on the fs-timescale in DFT-molecular dynamics on computational RAS has appeared in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. DOI:10.1088/1361-648X/ad215b.

01/02/2024 Our new Apium P220 3d printer for creating electrochemical sample environments in PEEK has arrived.

13/10/2023 Margot's article "In Situ Monitoring of the Al(110)-[EMImCl]:AlCl₃ Interface by Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy" has appeared in Batteries & Supercaps: DOI:10.1002/batt.202300394. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first use of electrochemical RAS for a battery system.

02/10/2023 Erica's article "Photoelectrochemical Schlenk cell functionalization of multi-junction water-splitting photoelectrodes" demonstrating very high solar-to-hydrogen efficiencies of >18% on larger areas for a photoelectrochemical system has appeared in Cell Reports Physical Science. The cell is based on an absorber from our project partner AZUR SPACE and we have developed a routine to modify the absorber-electrolyte interface photoelectrochemically in a well-controlled manner, also using in situ reflection anisotropy spectroscopy. DOI:10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101606.

13/06/2023 The first lecture ANM16 - Fortgeschrittene Elektrochemie takes place on 15/06/2023 in room VG 1.034 (Auf der Morgenstelle 15) from 12:15 to 13:45.

05/2023 Our work on carbon dioxide removal in the NETPEC-project has been featured in Uni Tübingen's magazine attemtpo!.

23/03/2023 Margot's review "Experimental and Computational Aspects of Electrochemical Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy: A Review" has appeared in ChemElectroChem. DOI:10.1002/celc.202300027.

28/11/2022 Jongmin's article "Resta-like preconditioning for self-consistent field iterations in the linearized augmented planewave method" has appeared in Electronic Structure. DOI:10.1088/2516-1075/aca24a.

15/11/2022 Our newest article on electrochemical operando spectroscopy using reflection anisotropy spectroscopy to study the structure of InP in contact with electrolytes has appeared in RSC Advances: The interfacial structure of InP(100) in contact with HCl and H₂SO₄ studied by reflection anisotropy spectroscopy.

07/10/2022 We  have an open experimental postdoc position from 01.12.2022 on in the H2Demo project on highly efficient solar water splitting. More detailed infos to follow soon!

19/08/2022 Our paper The annual-hydrogen-yield-climatic-response ratio: evaluating the real-life performance of integrated solar water splitting devices has appeared in Sustainable Energy & Fuels. DOI:10.1039/D2SE00561A .

14/06/2022 Our Perspective The role of selective contacts and built-in field for charge separation and transport in photoelectrochemical devices by Markus Schleuning et al. has been accepted in Sustainable Energy & Fuels. DOI: 10.1039/D2SE00562J. It has also made it on the inside front cover of the journal.

10/04/2022 Our Perspective Negative Emissions as the New Frontier of Photoelectrochemical CO₂ Reduction, the first publication of the NETPC-project, has appeared in Advanced Energy Materials. DOI:10.1002/aenm.202103801.

23/03/2022 Our newest review paper Combining experimental and computational methods to unravel the dynamical structure of photoelectrosynthetic interfaces has appeared in Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. DOI:10.1016/j.coelec.2022.100968 .

16/03/2022 Daniel, Erica, and Holger have joined our team. Welcome!

09/12/2021 An overview talk of what we're doing in our group can be found here: https://www.merckgroup.com/de/hall-of-fame-der-deutschen-forschung/hof-2021.html?#anchor-2

07/12/2021 Our Website at Uni Tübingen is online! But still under construction...